You get a call out of the blue from a journalist who is doing a piece called "Sex Advice from Interior Designers" and you find out that he has been given your name by a friend of yours from high school who thought you'd be perfect to interview. Do you feel pegged or what? Yes we do. Not that we have any more or less experience than the next person, but we do love to talk about it.
Sex Advice from Interior Designers just came out this week and is one of Nerve.com's ongoing features. Starring four designers, Saana (34), Regina (40), Jennifer (35) and yours truly (39), the questions and answers are pretty gritty and DO have nerve. Among our favorites:
I like the changing rooms at Banana Republic.
Eeewww... I think we just entered uncharted AT territory... and I feel violated.
and you LIKE it
Hmmm... the Barcelona chaise, you say...
My mama told me when the party gets too rough, for me to pull up my pants and go home.
if you can FIND them
Why is it that only guys are comenting on this?
Give them back, Patrick (the other one) or I'm tellin' Mom and you're gonna get it!
How about interior design advice from porn stars?
Max -
Didn't there used to be a site that had bad porn interiors directly taken from actual porn with the people greyed out? I heard about it, but I never actually saw it. It was famous for a minute there, but I missed out. A link would be a gas. Anyone?
to the boys-
i remembered seeing those porn interior shots also and found them (they're called "obscene interiors") for you. apparantly they are now in a book-
www.justinspace.com/obscene/oi1intro.html
i read this nerve article a few days ago and thought that all of the answers were from maxwell until and was a little bit shocked at some of the racy answers... but then i realized it was a group.
HGTV After Dark
Rated TV-MA.
Maybe more AT women haven't responded because they're all too busy disporting themselves at Banana Republic and all over their Barcelona chaises? (Oh, and cleaning up the "evidence" of their activities with mild soap and water.)
:-)
putting the "banana" in Banana Republic
i can't remember where i saw this movie, on AT??, but did anyone here see the video of the furniture getting it on? well worth a search. maybe it was some kind of foreign commercial or something?
look at Mawell, lookig all suave and come-hither in that pic!
(I am only partially through the article and am HOWLING. Hysterical-- and helpful-- answers.)
"Cover all the hard surfaces." a particularly funny tip. So to speak.
Reading Maxwell's sex advice was quite funny/strange. Specially considering the fact that whenever I see a pic of him, Tintin (my favorite cartoon character) comes to mind.
I only hope next time I am about to put some Banana in the Republic, I will not have visions of Maxwell on my left shoulder and Tintin on the right, coaching me all along...
okay, that's just creepy.
yeah, i also didn't realize at first that the answers at the beginning of the article were NOT from maxwell--that was weird, as some of those tips were getting pretty technical. my first reaction was "whoa, maybe too much information". even after realizing my mistake, i'm still having trouble integrating this new info into my concept of the AT-universe.
and as soon as i saw that tip about Banana Republic fitting rooms, i knew--i tell you, I KNEW--that some people were going to have a field day w/ "banana"...
LAME!! Is AT in cahoots with Nerve? Why did you post a link to an article that can't be read unless you buy a paid subscription to Nerve? Let me know if I'm missing something -- if not, this is really disappointing.
disappointed-
I remember this one, and back when it was first posted, that article was free; when you go to any old New York Times article THEY actually make you pay for the article, although their membership for normal things is free. So, it's not THAT... uh.. shocking, at least in THAT way.
Because if you notice, the last posts on this comment thread before yours, were back in June.
Which makes me think that perhaps instead of links to things like this, perhaps a screen shot, or whatever you call it, might be better, in the future.
Best furniture to have sex on?
The leather couches they have in congressional offices! Yes, some staff DO have big private offices.
But, the couches are kind of noisy and squeaky. The Capitol complex has nice, soft carpeting, fortunately.
You guys are woosies, sex on barcelona loungers is OK but lets use our imagination. I prefer sex on a large vintage zebra wood office desk in a dark wood paneled library (imagine the movie The Secretary) smelling of tobacco and expensive mens cologne. Accessorized with bronze sculptures, leather couch and chairs -OK this is where we put in the bronze barcelona chair. Vintage bar cart filled with chrystal decanters of whisky, brandy etc. Oh and dont forget the shag carpet for when one tires of the hard surfaces there is always the floor.
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